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By definition, non-renewal rates are higher than gross dollar churn rates. However, it is interesting to see that the non-renewal rates are also higher for shorter duration contracts.

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A 2017 SaaS Capital survey showed that young companies actually have higher retention rates than more mature SaaS businesses

High-growth companies are 8X more likely to reach $1 billion in revenues than those growing less than 20%.

If a software company grows at 20% annually, it has a 92% chance of ceasing to exist within a few years

Revenue per employee has been steadily increasing in SAAS companies. It serves as a great longitudinal measuring stick to understand the increasing or decreasing efficiency of the business

Only 8% of large companies use internet sales strategies. The proportion of companies relying on internet sales increases as company size decreases

Net-revenue churn improves with larger Average Contract Value (ACV), likely due to more structural churn among SMB customers and higher switching costs associated with larger contracts

The top 50% of the fastest growing SaaS businesses generate much higher upsells than their competitors. The larger the business, the greater the impact of upselling

The largest SaaS companies (>$75million yearly revenue) attribute 2.5x as much new revenue to upselling than the smallest SaaS companies (<$1.25million): 28% versus 11%

The very best SAAS business has a negative churn rate and will have a Dollar Retention Rate of greater than 100%

Because of the losses in the early days, which get bigger the more successful the company is at acquiring customers, it is much harder for management and investors to figure out whether a SaaS business is financially viable.

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Non-renewal rates are higher than gross dollar churn rates and higher for shorter duration contracts

In 2020, China is expected to generate 55 billion U.S. dollars in the global medical technology market.

If a software company grows at 20% annually, it has a 92% chance of ceasing to exist within a few years

At a 35% CAGR, it takes 10 years for a SaaS company to grow from $5M to $100M in ARR

The average SaaS company spends just 6 hours determining their pricing strategy

The median TTM revenue growth rate + adj. EBITDA margin for publicly traded SaaS companies was ~37%, implying that just under one half met or exceed “The Rule of 40%”

Companies that spend more on sales and marketing (as a % of revenue) generally grew at a faster rate than those that spent less

Google only has a 30 percent female workforce

Publicly-traded SaaS companies have an average Revenue Per Employee of $200,000

At Facebook, 15 percent of tech roles are staffed by women